Scott, if you write about this in the future, please don't say "at least I'm not dying of X". People reading this might be, and you are basically saying "well, at least its not that". Yes, people with cancer, and dying of cancer, read HN, particularly when the subject is pain.
I read that line as deference to those who are dying of cancer and recognition that their plight is worse than his. I don't see how that's disrespectful to those dying of cancer or would make them uncomfortable.
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
I'm a late boomer (1961). I don't blame the generation before me. I've known lots of them. My values, who I am, and what I do, stands entirely on their shoulders.
I think you are kind of past the age where you would blame the past generation. It’s something you mainly do at ages <30. When you get older your thinking becomes a bit more nuanced.
Is there a browser extension that will show a visual indication of network activity so I know to take a closer look via the network monitor. I know - it might flash all the time, but at least I can take a closer look to assess the sites that I visit regularly.
Or a browser extension that captures your text in a floating window just over the focused text field — user has to hit Enter/Return before it moves it from floaty window to web document.
(Wondering if some built-in accessibility features in the OS might have something similar.)
That doesn't really help you as if you want to use the website you already allow connections to that host and as far as I know these are mostly aimed at hostnames not the endpoint where the "creepy" request is being fired at.
Correct. You could always have JS disabled by default in uBlock Origin to mitigate JS snooping on sensitive info, so there is that. You can blacklist specific domains in uBlock too. We need something like Portmaster[0], but inside the browser as an extension.
Apart from a few of us nerds on HN nobody will do that. In reality people have a hard time seeing the problem with re-using a password, making people decide which hostnames are okay or vet javascript files before allowing them is unrealistic and not the solution to the problem.
The advancements in equipment to clean up after a large and/or complicated derailments contributes to these "acceptable" number of derailments. This includes roadbed, rail, and specialized equipment to move cars and locomotives. There are even 3rd party companies that specialize in railroad derailments.
To what end? Our world is not short of this kind of talent, at any age. Those that have these abilities will get there, in time. So maybe it would be better at that age to teach them to paint, throw a baseball, fly fish, travel, etc.
Why should they be taught to paint or to throw a baseball but not to use a tool (like a program, etc)
I was merely saying that the knowledge and facilities to paint, to play baseball or program should be accessible, and kids must be exposed to the fact that they exist... then, the kids pick per their inclination?
knowledge does not motivate people to do great things.
what children need to learn first and foremost is to be good people, create the desire to help others and contribute to society.
once they have that, they drive themselves to learn what they need in order to achieve that.
this kid here had the drive to solve a problem because they had experienced it themselves. it doesn't matter how they solved it and how much help they got, what matters is what drove them to solve the problem in the first place.
if we can create that drive then any of the above, whether it is art, sports or programming will happen based on the kids motivation.
A relative new player is MailerSend (https://mailersend.com/). We've moved all of our transactional e-mail over to their service.
They have a sensible onboarding and UI/dashboard. The dashboard makes it clear how to set up SPF, DKIM and DMARC. There is a generous free tier for a single domain. A single paid account supports multiple domains starting at $25/mo for 50k outbound. Support has been excellent.
And the biggest upside is that their shared IP range, so far, is clean and not blacklisted. That was the clincher for us.
I have no connection to MailerSend other than as a happy customer.
Or perhaps a for-profit company running this search engine and not garnering profit from it by directly changing search results, or having a different model for profit that does not affect search rankings.
I recently switched over to MailerSend for all of our transactional e-mail. It's drop-dead simple to setup a new domain, and you can manage multiple domains under one account. Their domain validation is rock solid and IP address pool is clean and not blacklisted. Logging and analytics could use some feature upgrades, but it's not bad. Support has been excellent. I have no connection to MailerSend other than being a relatively new customer.
Wow, I've been looking for a Mailgun replacement for a long time.
I was using it to receive emails at @mydomain.com and forward them to my primary email. Then they started charging for inbound routes, and I couldn't justify the price for <200 emails a month. So I switched back to my registrar's free email forwarding, and had to give up API support.
I love that the pricing page is simple instead of having multiple paid tiers each with their own pricing scale for # of monthly emails. I'm currently doing 100k/month with Mailgun, and while saving money on sending isn't much of a priority at the moment, I'll definitely look into this more down the road. Maybe try it out for a side project in the mean time.
I'm sort of surprised I haven't noticed this before when researching email providers.
Thanks! You are more than welcome to test out our services, we do provide 12k emails/month for free. And yeah, we are quite new in the scene of transactional email providers, but growing fast so you should hear more and more about us in the future :)
Minimum $25 per month is not a good deal for many customers like me. Sometimes clients send $9-15 per month emails from their sites, sometimes $50 worth (with mailgun). I don't want to pay a fixed price like $25 when I may only use 1/5 of it.
CTO at MailerSend here. We are happy to be mentioned here and if you have any problems or suggestions let us know - we want to keep it dead simple but also for customers to have all the features that are needed.
Scott, if you write about this in the future, please don't say "at least I'm not dying of X". People reading this might be, and you are basically saying "well, at least its not that". Yes, people with cancer, and dying of cancer, read HN, particularly when the subject is pain.